Example sentences of "why [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why has it taken you so long ? ’ |
| 2 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 3 | If postmodernism does exist in Britain , how strongly and significantly does it exist , and why has it often been overlooked ? |
| 4 | Why has it not caught on ? |
| 5 | Why has it taken so long ? |
| 6 | If this is the case , why has it been denied in the past ? |
| 7 | Why has it taken so long for this in his technique to be exposed ? |
| 8 | Why has it not come ? |
| 9 | What do you think has provoked women musicians to start singing rude and violent rock songs and why has it happened now ? |
| 10 | So why has it not led to a rise in conviction rates ? |
| 11 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 12 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 13 | Why has it started moving in that particular direction ? |
| 14 | Why has it been included ? |
| 15 | Why has it taken the Government so long to take even this inadequate action ? |
| 16 | Why has it been necessary to have endless debates about developing phase 2 of Kilroot as an oil or coal-burning plant , which is the expensive and the dirty option ? |
| 17 | Why has it taken so long to bring interconnection back on to the agenda ? |
| 18 | Why has it emerged ? |
| 19 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 20 | Why has it survived ? |
| 21 | So why has it been revived ? |
| 22 | Well why has it gone down ? |
| 23 | Why has it gone to somebody who ? |
| 24 | Why has it got a mar and E on the end ? |
| 25 | Why has it suddenly changed since nineteen hundred ? |
| 26 | Why has it funny number ? |
| 27 | Why has it got lines in it like bumps like that ? |
| 28 | But why does it always go wrong ? |
| 29 | Why does it always have to be me ? ’ |
| 30 | Why does it seem important that the answer should have some ‘ objective ’ quality about it , an insight into history , society , knowledge , rather than point to a merely personal obsession ? |